Guy Hacked His House To Have Its Own Twitter Feed

Tom Coates, a former Yahoo employee and current co-founder and principal at Internet-of-things stealth startup Product Club, hacked his house in San Francisco so he could remotely monitor it via Twitter, Rachel Metz of MIT Technology Review reports.

The reason why a house would need its own Twitter feed may be hard to grasp at first, but it represents a growing trend in Internet-connected devices.